Completed

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Stroke patients: Admitted to the Hyperacute Stroke Unit having a suspected stroke within 1 hour of admission. Important to note that not all these patients will have suffered a stroke 2. Control participants: Relatives of patients admitted to the stroke treatment pathway, who are healthy and have no signs of cardiovascular illness 3. Healthy volunteers

Exclusion Criteria

1. Stroke patients: Delay in admission exceeds the time window of 4 hours between stroke symptoms and admission 2. Control participants: Obvious signs or history of cerebrovascular disease 3. Unhealthy volunteers

Professionals

Education

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This project is supported in part by the NIH Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) Network, and NINDS grant 3P50NS055977 to Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and UT Southwestern Medical Center.